Saturday, September 10, 2016

Did They Wipe the Blood from Their Mousetraps?

Just gave myself a haircut.

Good news: nothing I did screwed up the blogrolls. It was driving me nuts, I went to the ironically name Blooger Help Forum and discovered many other bloogers are experiencing the same blogroll breakages.

Bad news: Blooger did it. Only Blooger bloogs now update (along with a few others, including Typepad, and sources that are not technically bloogs) but most other blooging platforms, primarily WordPress, have their RSS feeds severed. I assume Blooger did this on purpose with petty dictatorial intent, but I see cynicism in most actions and fine metaphors abounding in all things. Perhaps it's an honest glitch that will be fixed. Perhaps it's an honest glitch that won't.

If you know someone who's been waiting for Clinton to play the cracker-card..... once that would have been me.

That broke late last night, six hours after coffee with my Hillaryite Friend, who is confident in Clinton's victory and expressed admiration for Clinton's restraint in not directly attacking Trump's most devout. Nothing, said HF, can be gained by Clinton denouncing the Stormfront wing of Trump's support, and I agreed. Once, I said, it would have thrilled me for a Democratic POTUS candidate at the height of the campaign to publicly denounce Stormfronters and once I would have accused that candidate of cowardice for not denouncing Stormfronters. Now, it's one of the few smart things Clinton's campaign has done, letting Stormfronters advertise themselves.